midigod:URAPNIS: I'm pretty sure the impact with the water would still kill you at that height.

Nope. I'm pretty sure that terminal velocity is low enough to survive. You just have to fall spread eagle.

Ha ha. You would be traveling ~124 MPH when you hit the water, at which point you would be transformed into a splash of grease and bone fragments.

Nah. Feet first, toes pointed. I probably shouldn't say this, but I learned how to jump out of a whirly-bird @ 2500 feet using this method back when I was in SEAL team 7. I think it's been declassified by now.

No - you just have to drop a hammer in the water just before you hit, then you're golden.

You guys are all lame. The only problem I would have would be aim. Assuming no wind gusts, I'd be okay and would aim for the deep end of the pool (just in case.) I would have some friends there waiting for me, watching, and just when I was about to reach the water, I'd have them start making ripples in the water so it wouldn't be a straight surface.

And in case anyone's never seen it: Tower climbers working 1,700+ feet up

Bonus point if you can make it through the whole thing without your hands starting to sweat

I had butterflies in my stomach the whole time just watching that thing! Just when you think 'oh man thats farked up' it gets even worse... I wonder how much they pay to have someone do that. I worked for a company that had tower crews go up 200' on cell towers and hang dishes for microwave tower-to-tower links. They got paid huge and it was nothing like that.. fack

Gyrfalcon:The worst video ever is a short clip of a radio tower collapsing and the three workers falling 1500 feet to their deaths. Because AAAAAAAHHHHHH....oh, wait, I haven't even reached the ground yet....AAAAAAHHHHHHH.

In my teens & twenties, I use to climb radio towers to do work on antennas.Someone asked me what the difference was between a 50 foot tower & a 200foot tower. I told them, nothing except for the amount of time you have to think,before you hit the ground if you fall. I knew guys that would climb with a safetyharness all the way up & down, but I just free climbed until I got to a rest point orat the top. The harness, for me, just got in the way on the way up or down. If youjust don't think about "oh my, I'm up high!" and just climb the damn tower, it's not abig deal, plus, when you get to the top & hook on, to rest for a bit, you get one hellof a view.

poot_rootbeer:Gyrfalcon: The worst video ever is a short clip of a radio tower collapsing and the three workers falling 1500 feet to their deaths. Because AAAAAAAHHHHHH....oh, wait, I haven't even reached the ground yet....AAAAAAHHHHHHH.

[georgesjournal.files.wordpress.com image 640x480]Don't worry... the moment has been prepared for...

Holy crap, I thought I was the only person on the planet who thought immediately of that scene.

mat catastrophe:mat catastrophe: AdolfOliverPanties: I would fall off. I would not be able to control my nerves, would lose my balance, have vertigo, puke, piss and tumble to my death.

Unless I landed in that big pool. Then I'd be all right.

From a half-mile up? No, you'd be very dead.

Which brings us to point number 8: Why even build that building? Who wants to even be INSIDE at that height?

The Burj Khalifa is a cool building. The elevator ride was intense, and of course that didn't even go to the very tip top. I think it covered 30 ft/second, and there was some sort of sick-making light display thing happening at the same time. After I got out of the elevator, it was all good. Plus, the views of Dubai (25 years ago and now) were pretty amazing.

sxacho:pute kisses like a man: they say the fear of heights is not the fear of falling, it's the fear that you might jump.

I'd agree with that. I think this is kind of a "dream" fear where your subconscious comes up and whispers terrifying things that you can't quite understand enough to make words out of.

I've gone skydiving a bunch of times and was never as afraid as I get when watching crazy high videos or seeing photos like this.

This...

I have jumped out of an airplane many times, I have fast roped out of a helicopter, and I don't even mind flying in turbulent weather. Standing near the edge or climbing to any height bothers me. The video above actually made me turn away a few times. I don't even like climbing a ladder.

I used to be a paratrooper for like 8 years. Funny thing is I'm okay jumping from a plane althought I got butterflies. I'm just not good with being on the edge of anything. Yeah I'd shiat in my pants on a tower. I think it's perspective or something.

For those interested, there was a show called "World's Toughest Fixes" on NatGeo.One of the episodes involved a crew replacing an antenna from a 2000 foot tower.Last I checked, Netflix had it steaming.

It was interesting to watch..I was especially curious how they put the towers together in the first place.

After watching it, I only slightly curse when my cell phone has crappy reception (even though this was a TV tower).

And in case anyone's never seen it: Tower climbers working 1,700+ feet up

Bonus point if you can make it through the whole thing without your hands starting to sweat

It took me until now to be able to get home and watch this on youtube. Reading through this thread, i could only wonder why people were getting uncomfortable watching the video. while doing so, i noticed my heart rate getting a little erratic and a nervous feeling in my stomach. I guess i failed the test too. I'm glad i have a job that doesn't require me to do that crap.//oblig oh hell no

AdolfOliverPanties:That's why I have to give mad respect to Tom Cruise for filming a lot of his own scenes in MI:4 on the outside of that building. Yeah, he was cabled in, and yeah, he probably figured Xenu would save him or some shiat, but he was out there, running along that outside of that farking tower. Farking hell.

You are obviously a wog, otherwise you would know that Xenu has bestowed upon Tom Cruise the power of flight.. ... so it really was no big deal.